Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formula will not be as simple next year. Doyle says that recruiting the top high school players hasn't been easy ("many say that Harvard is just too good for them," Doyle says) and schools like Princeton, Yale and Trinity will rebound from their weak seasons...
...other councillors are looking to the state for help in recouping some of the lost property tax revenue. Wolf says she and Councillor Timothy J. Toomey are working on a proposal "that the [state] local aid formula include a factor for the amount of institutional land in the city...
Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
Leaping as promised into the Middle East peace negotiations, the U.S. tried unsuccessfully to persuade Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a formula for self-rule in the occupied territories...
...side in the BGH battle. They are afraid that the hormone will produce a milk glut and drive down prices. But what dairy farmers large and small fear most is that the BGH controversy will scare off customers. Firms that have staked their reputation on purity -- manufacturers of baby formula and whole-earth companies like Ben & Jerry's and Stonyfield Farm -- have publicly forsworn the use of the hormone. Market surveys bear out industry concern, predicting a 10% decline in national milk consumption should BGH be widely used...